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Beyond Innovation, Inc. is an established growing Project Management, Product Development and Consulting company. It is engaged nationally (www.bi-usa.biz) and internationally (Asia and Canada, www.bi-canada.com) in providing professional services including project management, Turn key projects and consulting services in system design, software development, managing IT infrastructure, Storage Area Network (SAN), security, process re-engineering, Financial Data Analysis and Sarbanes Oxley (SOX). We provide expert services nationwide to private, public, nonprofit and start up organizations in the United States, Asia and in the Canada. We serve Healthcare, Telecom, Security and Financial Organizations.

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Friday, October 10, 2008

We are actively interested in recruiting Cognos resources with at least 3 years experience. If you have such candidates, they would be based in Mauritius and should be available to travel to the Middle East on a regular basis on assignment. We are not interested in developers with 1-2 years experience at the moment.

ResponsibilitiesTranslate business requirements into technical requirementsSet up and design project architectureImplement BI projects and oversee project delivery from end to end.Application Testing and DocumentationBuild pre-sales models and present to customersPrepare and provide training to consultants and users

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Gaymar Industries, Inc. a prominent & growing medical device mfg. company with its headquarters located in Buffalo, NY. seeking candidates to design, implement and support data warehouse applications; 2-3 years experience in Cognos BI tool suite v8 (Framework manager, Report and Analysis Studio). Work with user community to define/develop business requirements. Ability to do metadata modeling using Framework manager is required. Background in Data Warehouse development with strong SQL skills.

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

The Model Developer/Admin for Enterprise Planning will be responsible for the build and maintenance of financial models in the Cognos Enterprise Planning (EP) applications. All duties are to be performed in accordance with departmental and The Venetian Casino Resort’s policies, practices, and procedures.

Minimum Employment Requirements:21 years of age, proof of authorization/eligibility to work in the United States, High School Diploma or equivalent, ability to communicate effectively in a positive/upbeat fashion utilizing English; both in oral and written form, interpersonal skills with focused attention to guest needs to deal effectively with all business contacts, maintain a professional, neat and well-groomed appearance adhering to VCR appearance standards, maintain consistent adherence to the VCR Unmatched Guest Service Standards, work varied shifts, including weekends and holidays.

Specific Position Requirements:We seek a candidate with excellent system administration knowledge and skill to maintain the Cognos 8 Enterprise Planning platform at LVS. This individual must have extensive Cognos 8 EP platform experience and will be the primary contact with system owners on Cognos EP related activities and support. The position requires a sound working knowledge of the software platform and the ability to successfully liaise with a variety of user stakeholders to achieve multiple business objectives. The successful candidate will demonstrate a strong character, established through a strong work ethic, and the ability to take ownership and be held accountable for project outcomes and system maintenance and development. Additionally, this person must be a strong team player committed to excellence, with a customer service focused attitude. A demonstrated ability to be detail-oriented self-motivated, and a quick learner is required. A degree in Information Systems and suitable previous work experience required.

Work in a fast-paced, busy, and somewhat stressful environment. Maintain physical stamina and proper mental attitude while dealing effectively with guests, management, team members, and outside contacts while working under pressure and meeting deadlines. Must be able to frequently move freely about the office, maintain manual dexterity to access computer via computer keyboard and operate office equipment, such as telephones, copiers, fax machine, etc., withstand various activities such as frequent walking, sitting for long periods and withstand prolonged standing, stretching, bending and kneeling without restriction. Be able to work indoors and be exposed to various environmental factors such as, but not limited to CRT fatigue, noise, dust, cigarette smoke, and be able to access all areas of the property.

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Are you looking for an exciting permanent position in Chicago? I have exactly what you are looking. This position is for a large client that offers a challenging, fast-paced environment. The exact skills we are looking for are listed below. Please contact me if you think you would be the perfect fit for this position.

Production Support Analyst (Cognos Admin)

Responsible for the installation, configuration and day-to-day tasks associated with ensuring the smooth and efficient operation of Cognos environment.

Ability to translate business needs into data models and reporting solutions.

Experience writing SQL statements and analyzing query performance.

Familiarity with UNIX Shell scripting, Oracle development toolset and the Oracle Apps database schema an advantage.

Knowledge of ASG-Zena job scheduler or similar job scheduling or application automation system would also be beneficial.

Strong background in systems/business analysis for the purpose of gathering and implementing reporting requirements.

Ability to develop and follow standards for procedures and documentation within the development cycle.

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, together with proven experience in a customer service environment.

Educated to degree level or evidence of strong academic achievement in a related field.

The Company

Our client is an established specialist insurance, investments and reinvestments corporation based in Central London. The corporation is made up of three entities all taking control of different aspects of finance in their specialist field. They have the backing of powerful and well-known blue chip financial institutions and the same can be said with their strategic partners and associates. Even though the company is young, compact and fresh, they are producers of high standards in all the work that they do. Altogether the corporation wish to provide an unrivalled level of service and offer high quality at all times.

The Position

The leading new entrant to the pension buyout market is looking for a talented and motivated Business Intelligence Analyst/Programmer to join its team and play a leading role in the growth of the business.

Reporting to the Chief Information Officer, you will work with the business users to clarify ETL requirements and business rules for data interfaces with our partner organizations as well as designing and delivering ongoing MI reporting requirements.

The Technical environment is based on Oracle 11.5 Data Warehouse and Cognos 8 BI /ETL.

Primary Responsibilities:

Work with the business community to understand strategic business goals and develop solutions to help achieve them.

Saturday, June 21, 2008

Associate Director, IT Business Solutions- Salary up to 120k, location Durham NC

PURPOSE

Under limited direction, provide Business Intelligence (BI) consultancy, training and support to project managers, business analysts, developers, business users and business report writers. Act as a subject matter expert for BI and related technologies and methodologies. Provide support for key IT and business initiatives throughout the whole BI project life cycle with a specific focus on BI Analysis and Design activities. Responsible for outlining and advocating best practices and frameworks in all aspects of BI development and report writing.

RESPONSIBILITIES

· Provide BI consultancy, primarily to project managers, business analysts, business users, integration developers and business report writers. Responsible for identifying opportunities to exploit relevant technologies, ensuring appropriate tool sets are utilized, sufficient capacity is available and detailing the BI components required, and working proactivley with relevant software vendors to ensure a thorough understanding of the product suite functionality and tools intergration.

· Ensure effective and standard presentation of meta data through the BI framework, in-line with standards agreed within the Master Data Management program.

· Develop, utilise and effectivley promote BI report writing and meta data methodologies, intergration best practices with business report writing and development groups.

· Work with the Enterprise Architecture group to ensure BI software is effectivley aligned and intergrated into existing and proposed technologies.

· Participate in, and provide technical leadership and direction for, company-wide projects that evaluate and select information management technologies including middleware, BI and data warehousing tools. This includes ensuring that tasks specific to BI and intergration are widely understood and incorporated within project planning. Primary focus on the analysis and design stages of BI projects with a requirement to prototype solutions and support report development.

· Participates in reporting model reviews for BI projects and audits as necessary to ensure compliance with company-wide plans and standards and alignment with enterprise data architecture and data model.

· Compliance to regulatory requirements, SOP’s and data standards.

· Perform other duties as needed.

Qualifications

MINIMUM REQUIRED EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

· Prefer Bachelor’s degree

· Must have experience developing and maintaining Data Warehouse and BI solutions through entire project life cycle.

· Prefer 7 years of BI tool set experience, with at least 4 of those years spent heavily utilizing the Cognos tool set. Must also have 2 years experience Cognos 8 tool set and to include Report Studio, Query Studio, Analysis Studio and Powerplay Transformer.

· Experience of Cognos 8 Metrics Studio is desirable.

· 7 years of Data Mart and Data Warehouse experience.

· Good knowledge of Balanced Scorecard Methodologies.

· Able to demonstrate strong understanding of dimensional modeling theory and best practice.

Thursday, March 27, 2008

Reputable, growing Syracuse, NY company looking to add a Lead Systems Analyst to their team. This Systems Analyst will support 10+ financial systems on different technical platforms.

Main Duties:-Become an expert in the technology architecture and design of a number of client-server applications in the Financial business area-Provide necessary Production Support oversight and effectively troubleshoot issues in Distributed Financial Systems.-Assist in the development of relevant business requirements by providing input in determining technical solutions-Must be technically capable of evaluating quality of coding changes and facilitate testing of the revised code used by our Distributed Systems. Ensure that documentation is in compliance with SDLC and CMMi requirements.-Develop test plans, cases, and conditions. Support UAT test planning and execution.- Perform periodic Sarbanes-Oxley testing of Distributed applications. Perform other periodic testing as needed.- Recommend methods of optimizing procedures to decrease costs and improve performance.

Thursday, March 20, 2008

The Business Intelligence Specialist analyzes requirements and designs, develops, tests, installs and maintains application systems, programs, functions, services and other related software components in response to enterprise needs of high complexity. This individual has responsibilities for production support of and maintenance of existing Business Intelligence solutions. The incumbent will maintain expert knowledge of integration with related source systems. This individual will fully accommodate the customer’s business needs, resolve conflicting user demands and maintain positive customer relations with strong communication and coordination. This position provides leadership, technical guidance, and mentoring to others in areas of acquired expertise with limited guidance. Full technical management of large projects, including developing project plans, and tracking progress by multiple resources, to ensure completion of projects on time and on budget. The incumbent should have established areas of subject matter expertise and be able to communicate technical concepts into non-technical terms when working with non-technical constituents.

Key Accountabilities:

* Develop new and enhance existing Cognos Planning (Contributor and Analyst) applications * Support existing production Cognos Planning (Contributor and Analyst) applications * Develop procedures to administer Cognos Planning (Contributor and Analyst) applications * Identify and validate software and infrastructure components required to implement technical solutions * Prepare and review technical and logical design artifacts * Submit solutions for review for compliance with best practices and standards * Contribute to enhancing and/or optimizing department support processes and procedures * Lead and guide internal quality assurance testing activities according to planned schedules * Resolve development and support issues of moderate to high complexity or risk * Provide systems administration support for Cognos Planning or BI applications * Write reports using Cognos Planning-based data sources * Learn and adhere to established change management processes * Create and sustain open communication with business application users and stakeholders by learning the underlying business processes

Qualifications

* Must have experience developing Cognos Planning applications (Contributor and/or Analyst) from the ground up * Must create and understand Cognos Planning technical requirements and design documents * Must be able to work independently to develop Cognos Planning applications (Contributor and/or Analyst) * Possesses analytical and critical thinking skills with technical problems of high complexity * Knowledge of quality assurance and testing procedures, processes and techniques employed across various business and technical application platforms and environments * Working knowledge with data access tools and SQL languages * Effective oral and written communication skills * Ability to collect information to ascertain the root cause of a complex issue and make timely decisions when recommending corrective action * Ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks and assignments of moderate and high complexity, working tenaciously to meet or beat deadlines * A degree in Computer Information Systems, related field or equivalent work experience

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

We are looking for Cognos consultant with following requirements. This is 4 week project in Wisconsin and start date is ASAP. Please send me resumes with their prices. The candidate must be available to start immediately.

- Should be an "EXPERT" in Cognos 8 Report Studio report authoring- Should be able to provide thought leadership to create various report types such as Cross-tab and Drill-through- Should be able to create calculations across different queries (in different blocks and across different measures)- Should have extensive experience in building reports using Powerplay cubes as the data sources- Should be able to write efficient MDX queries- Should be able to use specific MDX functions such as Tuples- Should be able to advise on cube structure based on reporting needs- Should be able to tune the report to optimize run times- Should be able to implement cube level and data level security in reports and maintain it without impacting ongoing development- Should have experience in performing unit testing of reports to test dimensions such as completeness and correctness of data, usability, security, formatting/layout, etc.

Regards,

Bob MehtaDirector, Business DevelopmentSupremus Group LLC515-865-4591Bob@compliancehome.comwww.compliancehome.com

If you would like to become part of this winning team and fit the requirements listed please forward your resume via a word document and 2 professional references (name, title, company, contact information and email address), your availability, your eligibility to work in the US for any employer and your salary requirements to sharon.chick@ctg.com. If you are not interested, please feel free to pass my information out to anyone you feel might have the skill sets we are looking for.

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

The Business Systems Project Manager oversees business systems analysis projects from start to finish. This position manages and coordinates the formulation and definition of systems scope and objectives based on both user needs and a good understanding of applicable business systems and industry requirements. The Manager also devises or modifies procedures to solve complex problems and oversees requirement definition, vendor evaluation, strategic systems planning, process reengineering, design, development, documentation, release management and production support.

Principle accountabilities:

Managing and coordinating the definitions of systems scope and objectives based on both user needs and a good understanding of applicable business systems and industry requirements; Collecting and reviewing data, reports and queries used by the research community including incorporating requirements into system designs and validating against source systems; Working with team members and data stewards to identify data to be captured from enterprise systems; Mapping data from existing enterprise systems to meet specifications and resolving any data conflicts and/or redundancies; Working with select members of the research community to ensure that the correct information is being captured, and is displayed in an understandable and meaningful way; Designing business processes and flow charts that can be used for training materials and procedures; Executing system tests based on scripts, as well as unscripted ad-hoc testing; identifying system issues prior to roll-out and communicating these issues through designated project reporting channels; Working with project team to provide input on implementation and roll-out plans including providing support during system roll-out; working with researchers and project team to resolve any issues identified during implementation and developing evaluation materials for use in obtaining feedback from research community; Providing input for various communication media used to report project progress (listserv, focus groups, periodic updates, web pages, etc.); Performing other related duties as required or assigned.

Seven to 10 years of experience in a professional information technology environment; A bachelor's degree, or the equivalent combination of education, training, and experience from which comparable skills can be acquired; Ability to work in a shared project team environment; Excellent verbal, analytical and written communication skills; Ability to prioritize and multitask under deadline conditions; Ability to solve or suggest solutions for problems in a collaborative environment; Knowledge and appreciation of the business concepts and requirements as applicable to a large, academic research university; Experience with BI implementations and BI tools; project management skills; Knowledge of SQL and databases.

Preferred Qualifications:

Minimum 5 years of functional lead experience; Experience with Cognos BI and reporting applications.

Sunday, February 17, 2008

Ultimate Software is seeking an energetic individual to join our Professional Services team. As a Cognos Consultant for Ultimate Software, you will be called on to perform various projects utilizing Cognos' suite of applications. Projects will require specific product knowledge, testing, analytical and design skills. The following is a list of responsibilities that you will have on your various assignments. Some or all may be needed on any project you will be assigned to. In order to fulfill the responsibilities of a Cognos Consultant, travel may be required.

Our Cognos 8 BI Consultant position can be located throughout the country but is preferably located in the Ft Lauderdale, FL area. Travel percentage is dependent upon employee location.

Saturday, February 16, 2008

Description: Our client is looking for 2 Cognos consultants to work on a 6-12 month project. The consultants will be working on the integration of Cognos to the SDK. They will be working with the development team internally. The manager would like these candidates to start mid March.Requirements: The consultants will need to have experience with the Software Development Kit from Cognos. This tool pulls data from the data warehouse for one of their main client interfacing sites. These candidates do not have to have a financial background, just need the technical experience. Please respond to bostonitjobs@kforce.com.

Thursday, January 24, 2008

Genzyme Corporation, is looking for a Reporting Developer/Analyst. The position will support the Orthopaedics division with business reporting requirements using Cognos. The Reporting Developer/Analyst will also be responsible for maintaining existing Cognos reports, report design, implementing new Cognos functionality, and report unit testing.

Job Responsibilities:o Cognos Report development and troubleshootingo Provide technical design supporto Framework Managero Assist in gathering new reporting requirements and understanding the business processeso Implement new reporting functionality in the Cognos report development environmento Manage requests and provide support for new reports and ad-hoc analysiso Provide report documentationo Maintain and enhance existing MS Excel based reportso Ensure that reports are sent to the appropriate audience in a timely and consistent manner